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...their erstwhile allies, the Croats. Aside from signaling the probable end to an uneasy but crucial alliance for the besieged Muslims, this latest fighting further threatened efforts to provide humanitarian aid to Bosnia. Vitez, 31 miles northwest of Sarajevo, was supposed to be the forward base for a British regiment scheduled for deployment next month to protect aid convoys; a reconnaissance group was pinned down by cross fire there on Tuesday. Shelling in Kiseljak, directly under the flight approach to Sarajevo, was so fierce by Wednesday that the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees halted its vital airlift to the capital...
...enough of trail tours? The BlackHeritage Trail begins at the Shaw-54th RegimentMemorial in Boston Common. This monument honorsthe first regiment of Black volunteers from thenorth to fight in the Civil War, as well as theircolonel, Harvard College graduate Robert GouldShaw (played by Matthew Broderick in Hollywood'sversion of the tale, Glory...
Presley was in Company A of the 1st Battalion of the 3rd Armored Division's 32nd Regiment. It's now Company A of the 4th Battalion of the 1st Armored Division's 67th Regiment...
Zealotry of either kind -- the puritan's need to regiment others or the victim's passion for blaming everyone except himself -- tends to produce a depressing civic stupidity. Each trait has about it the immobility of addiction. Victims become addicted to being victims: they derive identity, innocence and a kind of devious power from sheer, defaulting helplessness. On the other side, the candlesnuffers of behavioral and political correctness enact their paradox, accomplishing intolerance in the name of tolerance, regimentation in the name of betterment...
...Sept. 28, 1918, Corporal Freddie Stowers led a squad from Company C of the all-black 371st Infantry Regiment against a German unit dug into a hill in France. After a brief fight, the Germans appeared to surrender but suddenly blasted Stowers' men with machine-gun fire and mortar rounds, killing nearly half of Company C. Mortally wounded, Stowers, a 21-year-old South Carolina farmer, urged his men on to victory until he died. His commanding officer recommended Stowers for the Medal of Honor, but for 73 years he received no medal...